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Windows Phone was the best thing since webOS. The developer experience was (and still is) a lot better than for iOS or Android. I'm sure it will eventually come

Windows Phone was the best thing since webOS. The developer experience was (and still is) a lot better than for iOS or Android. I'm sure it will eventually come back.

MBCook 9y ago
I don’t know how it could. It doesn’t matter how nice it is the app ecosystem is too important and they’d be light years behind. If they emulated Android (like Blackberry)... why not just buy an android phone?
- miguelrochefort 9y ago
  The kind of apps we're using today won't exist anymore in 5 years. I believe that Microsoft will dominate in AR, and quickly become the leading platform.
  - WorldMaker 9y ago
    I feel like the people currently mocking Microsoft for how "boring" the HoloLens has quickly become because it's primary focus hasn't been games but enterprise and it's still not very consumer-friendly, are missing exactly why Microsoft is likely to be the leading AR platform. What Apple and Google are doing are still just fun toys for kids; HoloLens is already powering incredible business applications in places as disparate as NASA JPL and Ford.
- ocdtrekkie 9y ago
  The fact that Microsoft is pushing Universal apps so hard, and if you're making a universal app for desktops, it's trivially easy to allow it to also work on Mobile. A not-insignificant number of times I've installed an app on my desktop and then realized I can use it on my phone, or installed a phone app, and realized it's great on my desktop too. If UWP takes off, their mobile app support will follow. New Windows 10 S devices only running UWP apps will encourage this progress a lot.
  - lostmsu 9y ago
    > New Windows 10 S devices only running UWP apps will encourage this progress a lot. If anybody will actually buy them.
    - WorldMaker 9y ago
      There's a setting now to set Windows 10 Home and Pro to only allow Store apps as well. How soon until that tempts more of us that do unpaid tech support in our free time for family and friends to just turn that setting on for them?
201709User 9y ago
It crashed every debug deployment. Xamarin on the other hand never does.

Windows Phone was the best thing since webOS. The developer experience was (and still is) a lot better than for iOS or Android. I'm sure it will eventually come back.

MBCook 9y ago

I don’t know how it could. It doesn’t matter how nice it is the app ecosystem is too important and they’d be light years behind. If they emulated Android (like Blackberry)... why not just buy an android phone?

miguelrochefort 9y ago
The kind of apps we're using today won't exist anymore in 5 years. I believe that Microsoft will dominate in AR, and quickly become the leading platform.
- WorldMaker 9y ago
  I feel like the people currently mocking Microsoft for how "boring" the HoloLens has quickly become because it's primary focus hasn't been games but enterprise and it's still not very consumer-friendly, are missing exactly why Microsoft is likely to be the leading AR platform. What Apple and Google are doing are still just fun toys for kids; HoloLens is already powering incredible business applications in places as disparate as NASA JPL and Ford.
ocdtrekkie 9y ago
The fact that Microsoft is pushing Universal apps so hard, and if you're making a universal app for desktops, it's trivially easy to allow it to also work on Mobile. A not-insignificant number of times I've installed an app on my desktop and then realized I can use it on my phone, or installed a phone app, and realized it's great on my desktop too. If UWP takes off, their mobile app support will follow. New Windows 10 S devices only running UWP apps will encourage this progress a lot.
- lostmsu 9y ago
  > New Windows 10 S devices only running UWP apps will encourage this progress a lot. If anybody will actually buy them.
  - WorldMaker 9y ago
    There's a setting now to set Windows 10 Home and Pro to only allow Store apps as well. How soon until that tempts more of us that do unpaid tech support in our free time for family and friends to just turn that setting on for them?

201709User 9y ago

It crashed every debug deployment. Xamarin on the other hand never does.